Rojas also said that he wanted to “kill them all” – referring to the pedestrians – and that officers should have shot him to stop him, prosecutors said Friday..

He drove his car from the Bronx to Times Square on Thursday, where he sped into the bustling Crossroads of the World, hitting nearly two dozen people on the sidewalk before steel security barriers finally stopped him, authorities said.

Eighteen-year-old tourist Alyssa, of Portage, Michigan, was killed in the crash. Her 13-year-old sister was among the 22 injured, four of them critically.

Meanwhile a dramatic radio call of a policeman who was one of the first officers on the scene after a car ploughed into crowds of people in Times Square has been revealed.

The officer can be heard saying a vehicle has “run people over” and that “multiple people are injured”.